Manser who is now a 20-year old, started developing and selling the software at the age of 16.

He was arrested in November 2014 for going on a website crashing spree using his software.

He is not a hacker.

Brit teen who made $70,000 selling programs that crashed 200,000 websites, convicted

Manser developed software that was then sold to his customers.

One of the targeted sites belonged to Harrogate and Hull College, whose system crashed for 14 hours.

Manser took payment through PayPal and was thought to have made 50,000 total from his stressers.

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Hell serve an 18 month suspended sentence, as well 100 hours unpaid work and an 800 fine.

The judge described Manser as young and naive.

source: www.techworm.net